About Robert b. Somerville

Robert B. Somerville has been proudly connecting Canada’s communities for over 60 years. We install and maintain the infrastructure that makes energy flow!

Robert B. Somerville provides a comprehensive and fully integrated range of infrastructure services across Canada. We plan, build and maintain oil and gas pipelines, power and other utilities systems and related facilities. Renewable and sustainable energy projects are an important and growing part of our business.

Somerville clients include many of Canada’s major utilities and municipalities. We often work in partnership with other infrastructure builders and in extended enterprise mode with our clients. In all areas, Somerville is recognized as safe, expert, reliable, innovative and fair.

Services

Somerville's oil and gas pipeline experience stretches back more than 60 years and includes projects across Canada, in the United States, United Kingdom, Africa, and the Caribbean. With this broad … Continue Reading ›

Commitment & Experience

Somerville is committed to environmental responsibility. Our environmental policy, signed by our President and implemented into every facet of our day-to-day operations, reflects the … Continue Reading ›

Somerville Team

Nick de Koning has served as president of Robert B. Somerville since 1994. His responsibility is to ensure the company's long-term viability and its continued ability to create value for its … Continue Reading ›

Latest Pipeline Projects

The scope for this project included the installation of approximately 19km of NPS 20 for the Urban Pipeline Replacement Project - West Calgary Connector. The pipeline will be installed generally within a 19km ROW with 20m adjacent work space. There are numerous HDD crossings at multiple locations for rivers, highways, streets and a drainage pond. … [Read More...]

Somerville was contracted to excavate four existing pipelines on a steep hill, through a fish bearing creek. Somerville had to isolate the creek for the width of the pipeline ROW and pump the river water around the isolation. Somerville replaced 12 joints of 24" and 4 joints of 20", the line was isolated using stopples, the existing pipe was removed and new pipe replaced using large cranes as sideboom access was not possible. A tandem critical lift of the 24" pipe was required using a 300 ton … [Read More...]

Latest Utility Projects

Expertech is the exclusive infrastructure provider and a subsidiary of Bell Canada and Bell Aliant in Northern Ontario and Quebec. Robert B. Somerville is one of three contractors providing general contract services for Expertech in Ontario, and have been doing so since 2008.
Somerville provides services mainly roping and rodding and proving ducts for new cable routes, installing mule tape for new installations, copper and fibre installations utilizing pulling methods as well as fibre … [Read More...]

This is a General Contract on an as-required basis to provide support services for Hydro One in the downtown core of Toronto. Typically these services are provided when leaks are detected on their oil-filled cable network, and Somerville provides excavation, remediation, contaminated disposal services, backfill and restoration for detection and cleanup efforts. … [Read More...]

Latest Horizontal Directional Drilling Projects

As part of Imperial Oil's Pipeline Integrity Program, IOL identified an anomaly in a section of their pipeline under the travelled portion of Highway 409. To repair this section of pipeline they contracted Somerville to replace 276m of NPS12 by HDD. An American Augers DD185 was utilized to pilot by use of jetting method and reamed to a final size of 20" to accommodate the 12" Steel oil pipeline. … [Read More...]

Construction of an NPS 20 line for the Line 10 Replacement Project which will replace the existing NPS 12 line over 36.2 km. The Project consists of a NPS 20 (508.0 mm O.D.) pipeline from the Westover Terminal to the Nanticoke Junction in Ontario. The proposed pipeline will replace the existing line, and will transport crude oil. Somerville was engaged to complete two HDD crossings within a new Company ROW. The proposed HDD shall cross under the Copetown Woods Golf Course in a north to south … [Read More...]